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IRAQI PM IBRAHIM AL-JAAFARI IN IRAN

Iraqi Prime Minister, Ibrahim al-Jaafari (L), and Iranian Vice-President, Mohammad Reza Aref, listen to the national anthems, during an official welcoming ceremony for Jaafari at the Saadabad Palace in Tehran, Iran on July 16, 2005. .Al-Jaafari arrived in Iran on Saturday, the first in decades by a leader of Iraq. (UPI/Reza Madadi)

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